SafeSpeed wrote:
The Times wrote:
Four months after the introduction of a 10mph (16kph) speed limit, businesses are reeling from much larger than expected losses.
Like we couldn't see that coming.
We have to find a way to stop our lives and resources being governed and managed by innumerate nitwits with the vision of a small blind tunneling rodent.
Actually, there was more "vision" there than the article credits.
The businesses that have suffered have been fully expecting it for the last five years, and have been raising Cain about it ever since. The response from the LDNPA has been "Diversify!" which is pretty facile advice when, say, your sole line of business is selling or servicing power boats.
Of course the LDNPA saw it coming too, but as I said earlier, it was actually part of their gameplan. They
don't want tourism to prosper, as it defeats their agenda of turning the area into a bucolic rural hideaway, a recreation of a time which never really existed, except in their fanciful imagination.
If you really want to know what the ban was all about, forget "incompatibility" between yachts and motorboats, forget safety, forget the environment, forget even peace and quiet. No, the words you need to know are "World Heritage Site". It would seem that no price is too great for the attainment of this questionable dream, or more precisely for the self-aggrandisement of its champions.